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Final Orders re: Approach iro Registration, Recognition & Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, Lex Causae and Lex Fori

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SC13-12 : VENETIAN BLINDS SPECIALISTS LTD vs APEX HOLDINGS (PVT) LTD
Ruled By: GARWE JA, OMERJEE AJA and GOWORA AJA

This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Zimbabwe in which the court dismissed, with costs, a claim by the appellant for an order recognizing as legally binding and enforceable a judgment of the Supreme Court of appeal of Malawi. The latter judgment had ordered the respondent to pay to ...
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HH87-10 : VENETIAN BLINDS SPECIALISTS LIMITED vs APEX HOLDINGS (PRIVATE) LIMITED
Ruled By: PATEL J

The plaintiff herein seeks an order recognising as binding and enforceable as against the defendant a judgment granted by the Supreme Court of Appeal of Malawi on 11 September 2007. Pursuant to that judgment, the plaintiff claims from the defendant the sums of US$848,662=50 (with interest) and MK241,957=, as well as costs of suit on a legal ...
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SC33-15 : APEX HOLDINGS (PRIVATE) LIMITED vs VENETIAN BLINDS SPECIALISTS LIMITED
Ruled By: GWAUNZA JA, GOWORA JA and GUVAVA JA

I turn now to consider the main appeal. The substance of the appellant's criticism was that the court a quo erred in proceeding to recognize the judgment granted in Malawi and have the same registered in Zimbabwe as a competent judgment. It was contended, further, that the court misdirected itself by applying an incorrect exchange ...
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HH169-09 : GRAMARA (PRIVATE) LIMITED and COLIN CLOETE vs GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE and ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ZIMBABWE and NORMAN KAPANGA (INTERVENER)
Ruled By: PATEL J

The two applicants herein were parties, together with 77 others, in a matter that was adjudicated by the Southern African Development Community Tribunal (the Tribunal) in the case of Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd Others v The Republic of Zimbabwe Case No. SADC(T) 2/2007.The Tribunal gave its judgment in ...
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HH95-10 : TIISO HOLDINGS (PTY) LIMITED vs ZIMBABWE IRON & STEEL COMPANY LIMITED
Ruled By: PATEL J

The plaintiff in this matter has issued summons for payment of the sum of EUR6,640,295=94 together with interest and costs of suit.The claim arises pursuant to a default judgment of the Regional Court of Frankfurt entered in favour of Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KFW) as against the defendant on 25 July ...
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CC04-18 : GABRIEL SHUMBA and SIBONILE MFUMISI and DARLINGTON NYAMBIYA vs MINISTER OF JUSTICE and CHAIRPERSON, ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL COMMISSION and ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL COMMISSION and OTHERS
Ruled By: GWAUNZA JCC, GARWE JCC, GOWORA JCC, HLATSHWAYO JCC, PATEL JCC, GUVAVA JCC, MAVANGIRA JCC, BHUNU JCC and UCHENA JCC

This is an application in terms of section 85(1)(a) of the Constitution and the background to the matter is as follows:-The applicants are all citizens of, but are not resident in, Zimbabwe. They give different reasons for their absence, with the first applicant citing political reasons. The second applicant cites ...
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HB10-15 : INTRO-WISE CATERING (PVT) LTD vs COSIRA COMMUNICATIONS GLOBAL and COSIRA AFRICA (PTY) LIMITED and ZIMBABWE PLATINUM MINES (PVT) LTD
Ruled By: MAKONESE J

This is an application for a declaratory order.This court is invited to declare that Cosira Communications Global (first respondent) and Cosira South Africa (Pty) Ltd (second respondent) which was previously known as Cosira International (SA) (Pty) Ltd are one and the same entity.To make such declaration, this court is asked ...
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HH57-14 : TAMUKA GIYA vs RIBI TIGER TRADING t/a TRIANLE TYRE
Ruled By: CHIGUMBA J

Article 36(1)(a)(ii) of the Model Law, a schedule to the Arbitration Act [Chapter 7;15]...., states:“(1) Recognition or enforcement of an arbitral award, irrespective of the country in which it was made, may be refused only at the request of the party against whom it is invoked, if that party furnishes ...
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